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Cardboard images of three black men hanging in effigy were found at the University of California, Berkeley campus, according to ABC News on Saturday. The motive behind the incident still is being investigated; however, it is hoped that the...

Questions in Bladenboro, NC, “lynching” of 17 year-old black male, Lennon Lacy, still linger in the hearts and minds of family, friends, the community and NC NAACP President Dr. William Barber, II. Lacy, found hanging by two belts, on...

Since humans began making art, many have pushed the boundaries. The more notable contemporary examples include Andre Serrano’s “Piss Christ,” which achieved such infamy when it debuted in 1987 that a description nowadays is...

Author's Note: Readers, please view the photographs in the slideshow but be cautioned, the content is emotionally powerful.Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island were the only states in which it didn't occur. Most instances...

According to MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams, the rodeo clown who wore an Obama mask at the Missouri State Fair is little more than a modern-day lynching, CNS News reported Monday.“When you put a rodeo clown in a pile of cr*p and dirt in...

If you have not heard of the city of Rosewood, Florida or the “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma it is because both were destroyed by people who no doubt viewed themselves as “law abiding” gun owners. Contrary to the...

This is Part 2 of a three part series. In Part 1, we examined what the new bookworld order was, what kind of toys it had and what that meant to independent bookstores. In Part 2, we will take a necessary trip to the dark side of American...

Other than the R word, there might not be another word in the English dictionary that instantly evokes white guilt like the word “lynching.” At the very mention of the L word, whites get horrible mental images of evil demonic Klansmen...

This weekend, Georgia State Representative and President of the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials (GABEO), Tyrone Brooks will hold the annual reenactment of the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching in Monroe, Georgia on Saturday, July...

Have you heard of Willie Lynch? If not, the term "lynching" is derived from his last name. Willie Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia to his methods to slave owners there. His now...

About nine o’clock one morning in 1851 a man rode hard into Sonora and headed directly for the sheriff’s office. There he told a deputy, named Captain Stuart, that there had been a robbery in Algerine Camp, a supposed culprit had been...

About nine o’clock on the night of January 18,1855 Joseph Heslep, deputy treasurer of Tuolumne County, was found brutally murdered, his body still warm and lying on the floor of his Sonora office. The alarm sounded, a huge crowd gathered,...

“I thought about the black men who turned their heads during slavery as if they didn't know the white master was raping their wife, daughter, sister, and even mother. I tried to understand what it was that gives black men the capacity to...